Rationalization of Hydrothermal Synthesis of NaNbO3 by Rapid in Situ

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Rationalization of hydrothermal synthesis of NaNbO by rapid in situ time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction Susanne Linn Skjærvø, Kristin Høydalsvik Wells, Sanna Sommer, Tuong-Dan Vu, Julian R. Tolchard, Wouter van Beek, Tor Grande, Bo B. Iversen, and Mari-Ann Einarsrud Cryst. Growth Des., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01192 • Publication Date (Web): 10 Jan 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 21, 2018

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Rationalization of hydrothermal synthesis of NaNbO3 by rapid in situ time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction Susanne Linn Skjærvøa, Kristin Høydalsvik Wellsa, Sanna Sommerb, Tuong-Dan Vua, Julian R. Tolcharda,d, Wouter van Beekc, Tor Grandea, Bo B. Iversenb and Mari-Ann Einarsruda,* a. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway b. Center for Materials Crystallography, Department of Chemistry and iNANO, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark c. Swiss-Norwegian Beamlines at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS 40220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France d. Current affiliation: Sintef Materials and Chemistry, Sustainable Energy Technology, 7465 Trondheim, Norway

*Corresponding author: Mari-Ann Einarsrud [email protected] phone: +47 48136521 fax: +47 73550203

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ABSTRACT

In situ monitoring of the formation of crystalline phases during conventional hydrothermal synthesis is experimentally challenging. Here, we report an in situ time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction study during hydrothermal synthesis of NaNbO3 using a high-pressure custom-made capillary cell penetrable to X-rays. The high time-resolution (0.1 s) revealed a sequence of transient intermediate phases, including several unknown phases, before the final perovskite NaNbO3 was formed. These new findings highlight the complexity of the hydrothermal synthesis of NaNbO3 and demonstrate the potential for obtaining in-depth knowledge of the reactions taking place by time-resolved in situ X-ray diffraction.


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INTRODUCTION Hydrothermal synthesis provides a low temperature route to produce crystalline oxide materials, which reduces challenges with agglomeration and coarsening taking place at higher temperatures.1 High pressure generated during the synthesis enhances the solubility of precursors, modifies the properties of the solvent and thereby increases the reaction rate resulting in the formation of the desired phase.1 To obtain a high pressure, stainless steel containers, microwave ovens or supercritical flow reactors are usually used. The reactors are unfortunately non-penetrable to X-rays, thus the knowledge regarding nucleation and growth mechanisms of the oxides formed under hydrothermal conditions is scarce in the literature. Several intermediate phases may be present during the reaction course, some of them shortlived and possibly only stable under elevated pressure and are therefore challenging or impossible to study using ex situ characterization techniques. However, knowledge of realtime reactions and formation scheme of the materials by using in situ characterization techniques will significantly enhance the understanding of the synthesis method and simplify the preparation of new protocols. The perovskite NaNbO3 has attracted a lot of attention due to its ferroic properties and being the end member of the well-known piezoelectric material K0.5Na0.5NbO3 (KNN).2,3 Several intermediate phases have been reported by both in situ and ex situ methods during formation of NaNbO3 by hydrothermal synthesis using a solid niobium oxide precursor in aqueous NaOH solution.4–9 The reaction is initiated by the transformation of niobium oxide into HxNa8-xNb6O19 · nH2O, with the main building block consisting of the Lindquist ion, Nb6O19.9,10 Further, a transition to Na2Nb2O6·n H2O occurs through several intermediate phases before the perovskite NaNbO3 forms.9 The transformation between these phases has not been assessed completely although Modeshia et al.11 observed a new unknown transient intermediate phase using in situ energy dispersive XRD. We have recently gained



preliminary information about this system in a recent in situ powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) study showing that several transient intermediate phases are most likely being part of the reaction pathway to form NaNbO3.9 Here we report on the investigation of the reaction course of hydrothermal synthesis of NaNbO3 by combining the use of a high-pressure custom-made capillary cell penetrable to Xrays and in situ time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction. We present for the first time an in situ time-resolved PXRD study with high acquisition rate of the hydrothermal formation of NaNbO3. We show the potential of this set-up by the observation of transient intermediate phases and we discuss how the new insight into the reaction mechanism can be used to optimize and rationalize the reaction conditions.

EXPERIMENTAL T-Nb2O5 precursor powder was made by precipitation from (NH4)NbO(C2O4)2·5H2O (0.25 mol, Sigma-Aldrich, 99.99 %) by using NH4OH (25 wt%, Emsure) followed by calcination at 600 °C for 12 h as described by Mokkelbost et al.12 Highly concentrated slurries by adding TNb2O5 powder to solutions of 9 M and 12 M NaOH resulting in a sodium to niobium ratio of 9.5 and 13.2 were made to maximize the output XRD signal. The resulting slurry was injected into the in situ cell by using a plastic syringe. In situ PXRD data were collected in transmission mode at the Swiss-Norwegian Beamline (BM01A) at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility using a monochromatic beam with wavelength of 0.6776 Å. A custom-made in situ cell inspired by the previously described setup by Becker et al. and Jensen et al.13,14 was used where the reaction chamber is a singlecrystal sapphire capillary with an outer diameter 1.15 ± 0.1 mm and inner diameter of 0.8 ± 0.08 mm. The capillary was connected to Swagelok® fittings with graphite ferrules which were stabilized by an adjustable steel frame. Pressure of 250 bar was provided by an HPLC


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pump connected to one end of the capillary, while keeping the other end closed. A volume of the sapphire capillary was heated by a hot air gun to reach sub- and supercritical conditions and the temperature was calibrated by refining the unit cell expansion of boron nitride.15 The blower was ramped up to the synthesis temperature when pointing away from the sample. Once the required pressure and temperature was reached, the data acquisition was started. Only then was the blower remotely swung into position, providing quasi-instant heating (see temperature profiles in Figure S1), allowing detection of the very first instance of the reactions. The capillary was exposed to X-rays and the diffracted signal was detected by a Pilatus 2M16 detector with acquisition times varying between 0.1 and 5 sec depending on the experiment. The as-recorded diffraction data were treated using the PILATUS@SNBL platform.16 Topas 5 (Bruker AXS, Germany) operating in launch mode using JEdit with macros for Topas17, was used for the Rietveld refinements. The instrumental resolution function, wavelength calibration and detector distance corrections were performed using a NIST 660a LaB6 standard. The default approach was refining the unit cell parameters, Lorentzian isotropic size parameter, scale factors and Chebychev background parameters. The unit cell parameters were fixed for certain phases in ranges where two or more phases were overlapping and the scale factor approached the lower limit to avoid breakdown of the refinement. The change in background area was determined by describing the broad background feature with a SPVII peak while fixing the Chebychev parameters. The isotropic temperature factors and atomic positions were fixed to the literature values for each phase. The space group of the final products was determined using an averaged diffraction pattern spanning over the last 20 s of the experiment to improve the statistics. Structural ab initio determination on the lattice parameters of unknown phases was accomplished using the McMaille program18 for the first 20 reflections. The choice of a good unit cell was based on a high figure of merit and that all reflections had to be identified.



Finally, the more symmetric unit cell was prioritized. The chosen unit cell was used to refine the diffraction pattern with the lowest symmetry space group of the crystal system because it contains the least extinction condition.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Phase development when approaching supercritical conditions A high set point temperature of 423 °C gave a rapid heating rate (65 °C/s) and supercritical conditions at 250 bar after only 9 s of heating (see Figure S1). This resulted in an extremely fast evolution of phases for a NaOH concentration of 9 M, causing the reaction to be finished within 4.5 s. During the first 3.5 s, at least seven different phases were present as seen in Figure 1. In the pristine precursor slurry, diffraction lines from T-Nb2O5 (PDF 04-0070752)19 (PXRD of the dry precursor material is provided in Figure S2) are observed along with additional diffraction lines at low angles (Phase A). These low angle reflections are likely a result of breakup of the pristine T-Nb2O5 due to incorporation of sodium ions and/or water into the crystal structure. Diffraction lines for the unknown phases are given in Table S1. As the temperature is increasing, phase A disappears and T-Nb2O5 transforms rapidly (~1 s) to Na7HNb6O19·15 H2O (PDF 00-062-0888).20 Still, a complete transformation of T-Nb2O5 is not finished before new diffraction lines (most intense at 4.68°) appear after 1.4 s, belonging to a new phase B. This phase is extremely short-lived (0.4 s) and another new phase C with diffraction lines at lower angles (4.78 and 4.58°) is the only one observed after 1.8 s. Phase C was determined by ab initio refinements to belong to the monoclinic crystal system, and the lattice parameters are given in Table S2. Moreover, another phase (phase D) similar to an unknown phase previously observed ex situ by Wu et al.7 appears after a total heating time of 2.9 s. This phase was determined by ab initio refinements to belong to the triclinic crystal system (Table S2). After 3.5 s, reflections due to the formation of NaNbO3


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are observed and after another 1 s this is the only phase present. At this point, the size of the NaNbO3 crystallites have grown and stabilized at a size of ~80 nm, as shown in Figure 2a. The background area is also converging towards a constant value as shown in Figure 2b). The gradual decrease and subsequent stabilization of the background area (Figure 2b), stemming from the ionic and/or amorphous species in the solution, indicates that the formation of NaNbO3 occurs at least partially through ionic and/or amorphous species as well as the preexisting crystalline phases. The final NaNbO3 product was refined with the space groups Pmmn (no.59, PDF 04-019-3436) and Pnma (no. 62, PDF 01-080-8672) which both describes the structure equally well (Figure S3), supported by findings of Peel et al.21

Phase development under subcritical conditions By lowering the set point temperature to 215 °C, subcritical conditions was obtained at 250 bar. The maximum temperature was reached after ~15 s, meaning that a stable reaction temperature was achieved for the majority of the reaction course. Still, a complex reaction scheme with several phases involved was observed, but with significantly more time-overlap between phases. Contour plots for the phase development of the Na-Nb-O phases in both 9 and 12 M NaOH at this condition are presented in Figure 3 a) and b), respectively including schematics of the phase development. The transition from T-Nb2O5 to Na7HNb6O19·15 H2O happens over a period of 7 s at pH 9 after heating is initiated, as seen in Figure 3a. Phases B and C are observed after 6 and 8 s and these phases have longer lifetimes than during rapid heating when approaching supercritical conditions. The hydrated phase Na2Nb2O6·H2O (PDF 04-014-2939),22 which was not observed during rapid heating, appears after 1.9 min without the transformation through phase D. The initial formation of the product NaNbO3 occurs almost simultaneously with Na2Nb2O6·H2O after 2.9 min and the diffraction lines of both phases grow quickly, as seen in



Figure 4a. After 4 min of heating, the scale factor (Figure 4b) of Na2Nb2O6·H2O reaches a maximum while the size stabilizes. The scale factor then decreases continuously while the size remains stable for approximately 7 more minutes and then quickly falls as NaNbO3 reaches the end of its growth at 45 nm. This suggests that NaNbO3 grows mainly on the expense of Na2Nb2O6·H2O through a solid-solid reconstructive phase transition, where the water is expelled from the hydrated structure over time. A complete conversion to NaNbO3 occurred after a significantly longer total heating time (18 min) compared to at supercritical conditions. The background area was stable throughout the experiment except for a small decrease during the first few seconds, seen as a small color change in the contour color in the range 2θ =12-15° in Figure 3a. Evidently, the crystallization of the Na7HNb6O19·15H2O phase consumes all possible amorphous solid and ionic species present in the solution, although this is challenging to extract quantitatively from the data due to the complex reaction pattern involving multiple phases.

Phase development at more alkaline conditions By increasing the pH to 12 at subcritical conditions the phase development changes slightly (Figure 3b). No traces of phase A are observed in the unheated precursor, but rather a higher amount of Na7HNb6O19·15H2O, indicating the importance of high pH in stabilizing this phase. The Na7HNb6O19·15H2O phase is still present also when the very transient phase B and the new unknown phase E appears. Ab initio refinements determined that phase E belongs to the monoclinic crystal system (Table S2). Attempts of fitting the diffraction lines (Table S1) of phase E reveals that it might have similar characteristics to an oxyhydroxide phase (NaNb2O5(OH)·3H2O, space group P21/c23, ICSD 193826) but several unidentified reflections are undermining the certainty of this result (Figure S4). The presence of a similar phase should still be considered, as its building blocks are similar to the pre-existing


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Na7HNb6O19·15H2O phase as well as the next phase to be formed, Na2Nb2O6·H2O, with edge- and corner-sharing octahedral networks with sodium ions and water in-between (Figure S5). Moreover, a gradual transformation from Na2Nb2O6·H2O to NaNbO3 over 10 min is observed, presented in Figure 5. The NaNbO3 crystallites grow and the size converges to 35 nm in a matter of 13 min total reaction time, following a similar reaction course as in 9 M NaOH. A small but significant difference of the conversion rate is observed in the favor of the higher reaction rate at higher pH.

Potential of the in situ method Figure 6 presents the time for NaNbO3 to nucleate and the reaction time for complete conversion into the NaNbO3 final product, as well as crystallite size as a function of pH and temperature. The data can be used as a guideline to design an optimized protocol for hydrothermal syntheses of NaNbO3. The general scheme for the phase evolution independent of the reaction conditions is the dissolution of the niobate precursor forming the hexaniobate Na7HNb6O19·15H2O phase. This phase is followed by the formation of a very short-lived phase B surveyed by the appearance of at least one more unidentified phase. At stable subcritical conditions the hydrated Na2Nb2O6·H2O phase forms before the target NaNbO3 phase, while this hydrated phase is not formed during rapid heating approaching supercritical conditions. A significant amount of amorphous solid or ionic species is observed for all the experiments, but it seems that under stable subcritical conditions, most of the amorphous or ionic species are converted into crystalline intermediate phases before the formation of NaNbO3. Under rapid heating, the amorphous solid or ionic species are still present when NaNbO3 starts nucleating. This, in combination with a more abrupt reaction course, might be the reason for the much larger crystallites produced under these conditions, as illustrated in Figure 6, but this needs further



investigation. Increasing the pH gives smaller crystallites (Figure 6), probably due to increased nucleation rates. The fast in situ XRD experimental method presented allows quantitative investigation of the reaction product (i.e. phase purity, crystallite size and shape, activation energy and crystallinity) as a function of pressure, temperature and pH. Furthermore, a thorough understanding of the reaction pathways (i.e. intermediate phases) is gained. The experimental method presented here is also well suited for Design of experiments (DOE) by scanning over a wider range of reaction parameters in a short amount of time. Further studies will provide a detailed analysis. The understanding of the complex phase development in this Na-Nb-O system is important for the preparation of the more complex KNN-based materials by hydrothermal synthesis.

CONCLUSIONS A robust and flexible method for the study of fast reactions and hence transient intermediate phases during hydrothermal synthesis of NaNbO3 has been developed by combining time-resolved in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction and a high-pressure custommade capillary cell. The technique is used to reveal the fast reactions in the Na-Nb-O system going through a rapid sequence of short-lived intermediate phases (0.1 sec) to form NaNbO3. The in situ characterization method has a great potential for the study of fast reactions during hydrothermal synthesis and thereby gaining important information about the nucleation and formation of the oxide materials. The method allows investigation of how pressure, temperature and pH influence the reaction product allowing tailoring of optimal reaction conditions.


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Financial support from Norwegian University of Science and Technology and The Research Council of Norway under the Toppforsk program to the project (No. 250403) "From Aqueous Solutions to oxide Thin films and hierarchical Structures" is gratefully acknowledged. Susanne Linn Skjærvø and Bo B. Iversen thank the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF93) for support. The authors declare no competing financial interests.

ASSOCIATED CONTENT Supporting information (PDF) Table of identified diffraction lines for the unknown phases in the Na-Nb-O system, overview of refined parameters for the NaNbO3 end frames, PXRD pattern of the dry Nb2O5 precursor, single diffractograms showing the fits with space group Pnma and Pmmn, fitting of phase E using NaNb2O5(OH)·3H2O with the space group P21/c 3 as a model and crystal structures of Na7HNb6O19 · 15 H2O, NaNb2O5(OH)·3H2O, Na2Nb2O6 · H2O and the cubic perovskite structure are given as supporting information.

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FIGURES

Figure 1 2D contour plot of the evolution of phases in the Na-Nb-O system during hydrothermal synthesis in 9 M NaOH during rapid heating approaching supercritical conditions (423 °C and 250 bar) including a schematic showing the phase development.


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Figure 2 a) Crystallite size of NaNbO3 and b) background area originating from ionic or amorphous species in 9 M NaOH solution during rapid heating approaching supercritical conditions (423 °C and 250 bar). The insets represent the hatched areas in each subfigure, respectively.



Figure 3 2D contour plots of the evolution of phases in the Na-Nb-O system during hydrothermal synthesis in a) 9 M NaOH and b) 12 M NaOH at subcritical conditions (215 °C and 250 bar) including schematics showing the phase development. The horizontal lines marks change in acquisition rate.


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Figure 4 a) Crystallite size and b) scale factor of Na2Nb2O6·H2O and NaNbO3 at 9 M NaOH, at subcritical conditions (215 °C and 250 bar). The grey line represents a change in acquisition rate from 0.1 to 5 s/frame.



Figure 5 a) Crystallite size and b) scale factor of Na2Nb2O6·H2O and NaNbO3 at 12 M NaOH, at subcritical conditions (215 °C and 250 bar). The grey line represents a change in acquisition rate from 0.1 to 5 s/frame.


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Figure 6 Schematics showing the potential of the in situ fast X-ray diffraction method by plotting the crystallite size, nucleation time and conversion time of NaNbO3 as a function of reaction temperature and pH.

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Rationalization of hydrothermal synthesis of NaNbO3 by rapid in situ timeresolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction Susanne Linn Skjærvøa, Kristin Høydalsvika, Sanna Sommerb, Tuong-Dan Vua, Julian R. Tolcharda,d, Wouter van Beekc, Tor Grandea, Bo B. Iversenb and Mari-Ann Einarsruda,* a. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway b. Center for Materials Crystallography, Department of Chemistry and iNANO, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark c. Swiss-Norwegian Beamlines at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS 40220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France d. Current affiliation: Sintef Materials and Chemistry, Sustainable Energy Technology, 7465 Trondheim, Norway



SYNOPSIS The hydrothermal formation and growth of NaNbO3 has been monitored in situ with timeresolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction revealing a complex sequence of transient intermediate phases, including several unknown phases, before perovskite NaNbO3 was formed.


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